By Possessives, Modals

I have two cars -in this context, "have" is a verb which means to be in possession of .I have known John for 10 years. -"have" is a a modal word which helped the verb "known" to form present perfect tense. She has a good job- being possessive of She has done a good...

Hello, this is my first post here, I like to know these wordskilometercentimeterAre those words noun if they are standing alone ? if it's, what kind of noun it's, proper noun or abstract noun or etc ?After that, I want to indentify the part of speech of the following sentence by using the...

Hello, this is my first post here, I like to know these wordskilometercentimeterAre those words noun if they are standing alone ? if it's, what kind of noun it's, proper noun or abstract noun or etc ?After that, I want to indentify the part of speech of the following setence by using the...

Incho. Over the centuries, there are generally four accepted stages of change regarding "have": From "have + obj + to + V" to "have to + V (+ object). Stage 1. have is a full verb meaning ‘to possess, have in possession’ (still in use) Stage 2. the semantics of have are considerably weakened;...

OK-- please ignore all my other rambling above. Let's go back to your originals. They belong to two groups of verbs that do not take the active voice: 1) The situation is said to be critical. (this structure with say, repute, rumour, see does not have an active form) 2) These types of...

CalifJim wrote:If a student points to some construction and asks me if it's the subjunctive or not, I can't reply, 'No, it's a monkey!'Now there you are wrong! You are the teacher and can say any dang thing you want! In fact a smart retort like that might go a long way toward making your...

deleted by an obligatory deletion transform. Will this work on the clutter in my living room? Don't we all wish!!! LOL Part of the problem, as Paco has aptly observed, is the problem of finding the missing (deleted) subject of a dependent clause, the infinitive clause "to be ... cleverer...

1) My little brother would not turn down the radio volume in the morning. MY = possessive adjective LITTLE = DESCRIPTIVE ADJECTIVE BROTHER = noun WOULD = modal auxiliary NOT = NEGATIVE PARTICLE TURN = main verb DOWN = adverb particle THE = definite article RADIO = noun (used as an...

Dear teachers,Would you please tell me if my analysis is correct ?1) My little brother would not turn down the radio volume in the morning.MY = possessive adjective LITTLE = determinative adjective (quantifier)BROTHER = noun WOULD = modal auxiliaryNOT = ?? TURN = main verb DOWN = preposition or...

Hello K.O. That looks good - here's a little more detail: Clause 1 We - subject were spared - passive voice, past tense the storm's fury - noun phrase, object (the storm's - possessive; fury - direct object) Clause 2 but - coordinating conjunction now - adverb are having - modal verb,...